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My votes are for Jerry West – #10 on my top 10 players all time and #3 on my all time SG list, should have won MVP in 1970 imo Elgin Baylor – in my top 20 players all time and #4 on my all time SF list, never won MVP because he played in […]

It’s true that he was never the unquestionable best player in the league. During his prime (2003–2011) he usually had Duncan/Lebron to compete with, and to a lesser extent Nash and Dirk who also competed with Kobe for MVPs during that time. Since a lot of Kobe fans like to talk about his MVPs getting […]

The reason why the trend shifted from centers to forwards and guards like other people mentioned, really is because of the 3 point line. The 3 point line had such an impact on the NBA I would compare it to the institution of the shot clock. You had the before shot clock era and after […]